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The EU’s €691m in aid to Palestine has become another casualty of the latest Middle East conflict.

If you are lucky enough to be in Paris for tonight’s epic rugby clash with our Celtic cousins from Scotland, we can only thinly veil our envy by saying we hope those French bedbugs are kind to you. But we will also try to keep the levity stakes low as we broach this most sensitive topic.

The West has begun to look rather wobbly on support for Ukraine’s war. Ireland may need some old-style Jesuits to puzzle out whether Irish rifle training for Ukrainian soldiers amounts to “lethal aid” threatening neutrality.

US lawmakers have sacked House speaker Kevin McCarthy, their third most powerful government leader, sparking political deadlock and chaos.

I probably would remember nothing at all about the referendum which gave the nation the Court of Appeal, bringing on another layer of judges and legal eagles, without some wag’s ironic posting on social media at the time. This alleged that posters were appearing all across leafy south Dublin, where there are more lawyers per square inch than anywhere else in Ireland, urging voters to: “Say ‘Yes’ to the Court of Appeal and Job Creation.”